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Did any of you see the half-time show last night? Ashley Simpson put on another career ending performance! I thought that there would be some conversation about it today, but I have not seen any mention of it anywhere! It was more painful than watching her on SNL... Kelly Clarkston's drummer dropped a stick as the director cut to a shot behind his kit, which was pretty humorous as well! Any thoughts?
It was all so HIDEOUS........like that proved that she could sing......NOT
http://www.lipsync.us/Ashlee%20Simps...0Stage.torrent
http://www.lipsync.us/
Why dosent she just give up?!?!
Here a convo on it about the problems they have with the PA wireless issues at it. http://srforums.prosoundweb.com/inde...819d8e6de244d8
I heard the mix was bad too. Kelly Clarkson's not-so-talented back-up singers mics were at a higher volume than Kelly's. Did anyone else hear or notice that?
It's kinda funny that "professionals" let this sort of thing happen...alright, who are they not paying back there? [img]tongue.gif[/img]
I was going to post, but thought, why bother. [Besides, someone else in here would]... [img]wink.gif[/img]
Yes, Kelly started the show & her mic wasn't even in the mix...[after announcing that Ashlee would end the show, this was ironically appropo]. [img]eek.gif[/img] [img]wink.gif[/img] Them you could hear a sound tech say [cutting in over the perf], "test - 1,2, 1, 2" b4 they got her mic up. [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img]
Funny, during AS's perf, the verses had these drum machine sampled dance drum sounds, then the choruses had full on rockin' acou kit...i thought maybe the drumr was pantomiming to the track, as no triggers were evident in the good drum angle shots. & the cam did indeed cut to him right when he dropped a stick. And the huge crowd boo'd AS b4 & aft her perf...unbelievable; a horrid documenation. & she indeed cannot hold a note. Better off taking all the $ it's taking to float her career & sock it away / invest. She'll be better off. I'm terribly embarrassed for her. I wouldve told all the hangers on to take a hike after the SNL debaucle.
Terribly written songs for the silly, soak-up-any-BS-they-shove-down-my-throat kiddie fare on all 3 "artists" [well, at least Kelly is by legal def a real "singer" ;c)]...Trace Adkins' tune was low in range & sounded dreadful...& the tune flat out sucked anyway...pandering mush, once again.
Overall, THE worst 1/2-time i've EVAR witnessed. Right down to the silly choreography broadway show dance numbers....music & entertainment for the bubble-gum crowd. And BAD at that. [img]graemlins/thumbs_down.gif[/img]
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 05, 2005 04:49 PM: Message edited by: fuseU1 ]</font>
Why did Kenny Aronoff do that album anyway? Ashlee has and always will be a puppet. Thats what pop is these days. It's a sad thing... Why the hell did Lindsay Lohan do an album anyways??! Lohans "perfomence" is on that lipsync also. Now paris hilton nicole richie.... and they will make more money at it then 90% of real musicians which I just don't get.
I felt nervous watching this, like when a friend goes off in a social setting--SHUT UP & sit down...please!
I did notice the background vocals on Clarkson's number. It was weird...at least he was in tune.
The above URL offered some interesting insights into all of this.
More on Simpson here w/audio of performance
"Now paris hilton nicole richie.... and they will make more money at it then 90% of real musicians which I just don't get.
The rational mind is dazed & confuzed here! Think of all the "education" given to our young people and the principles about how to make a living, ect. Then the application to all of this, as seen by our youth is Ashleee Simpson [img]frown.gif[/img]
I work w/kids a lot and the influence of these "young ladies" is immense.
Hey, David Cassidy gigged stadiums in the early 70's all the time--and he did it while doing a TV series. That was the 70's! Wassup today?
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 05, 2005 05:29 PM: Message edited by: PocketPlayer ]</font>
The guys who run Modern Drummer must be crapping their pants at the thought of keeping their magazine going.
They aren't getting any help from the music industry.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Because he got PAID.Quote:
Why did Kenny Aronoff do that album anyway?
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">LOL [img]eek.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img] [img]redface.gif[/img]Quote:
Originally posted by benrand:
The guys who run Modern Drummer must be crapping their pants at the thought of keeping their magazine going.
They aren't getting any help from the music industry.
If only it could put eMpTyV out of biz. Hey, we can [pipe-]dream, can't we?
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 05, 2005 05:10 PM: Message edited by: fuseU1 ]</font>
She is awful -- no questions about it -- I can't explain her -- she can't sing.
That said, there are a lot of performers out there -- making a lot of money and getting a lot of attention who can't sing. And certainly have difficulty singing live.* The music industry rewards look (no new insight here) not ability.
*listen to the Paul Simon 50 Ways clip elsewhere on this board.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">On the contrary, MRhet.Quote:
The music industry rewards look (no new insight here) not ability.
It takes years of intense practice & great agility to wind your arms big & wide like a windmill while playing 3-4 bar chords [as if you're doing something really important], & shake your glute & your do while at the SAME TIME wearing loud, bawdy, or slutty clothes [Independence, to say the least!]...& a 6-yr degree from "MTV, Hair, Piercing, Tatoo, Makeup, Silver & Gold Chains, Poser 101." [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/sure.gif[/img] [img]wink.gif[/img]
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 05, 2005 05:08 PM: Message edited by: fuseU1 ]</font>
LOL fuseU1
There is something about Ashley Simpson's career that I can't get enough of..... It is one of my guilty pleasures, but I somewhat enjoy watching her go down in flames! I am pretty sure everybody feels the same way, but it gives me pleasure... How in the hell is this chick still getting gigs????? I woke up this morning and there she was on Regis and Kelly... Who is sucking who? Her Dad is proving that magic is real!
Pink basses are so ironic for punk rockers....
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">LMAOQuote:
Originally posted by the grove:
Pink basses are so ironic for punk rockers....
It couldn't have happened to a nicer gal. [J/K, sarcasm].
But seriously; actually, she is rapidly becoming a characature of herself, a cliched parody for SNL itself. I actually feel embarassed / sorry for her, as she appears so young & convoluted by the whole facade. Perhaps quit listening to the agents & mommy & daddy! Terrible when life's little snafus are on the front page for all to comment on.
But also, honestly, I can think of a host of others that I'd take much more GP in seeing it happen to, AW...
[20 yrs ago maybe,] but it's not going to stop her "career" nowadays.
If anything, it'll just morph into a professional comedienne / stereotypical eMpTyV stoopit "reality" show...[oh dear, it appears it already has]
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 05, 2005 06:21 PM: Message edited by: fuseU1 ]</font>
This was posted at Fox News.Com:
NEW YORK — Ashlee Simpson's (search) Orange Bowl (search) halftime performance was a lemon, according to the 72,000-plus Miami crowd. The 20-year-old singer was soured by a discernible chorus of boos from the audience following a performance of her song "La La."
"You make me wanna scream," she sang before the audience jeered.
The video of Simpson getting booed was posted on the local10.com Web site, click here to view it.
Simpson was the finale in a trio of halftime performances, following original "American Idol" winner Kelly Clarkson and country singer Trace Atkins. The camera cut away from Simpson's face once the booing — or perhaps one of Simpson's "hoe-down" dances — began.
The negative vocal reaction comes months after Simpson's boo-boo last fall during a live performance on NBC's "Saturday Night Live," which revealed she used background vocal tracks. The mishap was later attributed to acid reflux.
But the Walt Disney Co. gave the crowd a reason to cheer, dispensing a theme park ticket to every fan in attendance. The giveaway, a promotion that could cost as much as $4.3 million if all the tickets are used, is in honor of the 50th anniversary of its Disneyland park in California.
The second season of Simpson's unscripted MTV reality show, "The Ashlee Simpson Show," premieres Jan. 26 and will capture the "SNL" appearance and preparation for her first nationwide tour, which begins Feb. 18 at Los Angeles' Universal Amphitheatre.
Here is the link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,143445,00.html
Damn - couldn't get that file: connection refused.
Can anyone post it one here please?
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There's a handfull of performers who's capable of executing complex choreography while singing, and they are not dominating the charts today.
Even Destiny's Child has difficulties executing a showoff like that, and they were even raised from birth to do it.
Why does Ashley Simpson think the can be a great performer by sneaking in from the backdoor?
When does she admit, that her voice requires serious training, practice, dedication, heart and creative talent to phrase in a personal and honorable way? And why does MTV ( A MUSIC CHANNEL ) support her in doing a commercial reality show with her? When does this end? What are we serious and ambitious musically focused people doing Wrong?
It's frustrating... It's like the record label won't have anyone with any signs of independent intelligence and competence or self-respect or any other kind of humalitarian behaviour. Why not sign the whole Playboy Mansion while we're at it? They could be the new Spice Girls you know.
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I think Shields and Yarnell were better vocalists.
I'd rather watch mimes than Ashlee Simpson...or MTV. Yeah, I'd rather watch mimes and mummenschantz than MTV with all it's big angry black guys with gold teeth and big cars target shooting and the whole reality show that's filmed so that it can't be reality.
FTV...yep, FTV.
Yeah, BR, agreed. At least even the Muppets got it right...& had Animal [entertaining hybrid of Keith Moon / Bonzo / Buddy / VC "the Animal"] [img]wink.gif[/img] .
Sorry to break the news to ya Klemme [img]wink.gif[/img] , but MTV has long departed from most things even remotely related to "music[al]." [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img]
It has become [& long been] simply another extremely liberalized, pop culture pandering, trash talk/"reality" show, soap opera, trendy fashion, cheap attitude, sex-sells, silly youth-oriented bubble-gum, little girl beauty pageant, dog-&-pony parade. Wait - is there more?...yes...it is a show of pop politics, BION...oh yeah...& BIG advertising $$...say no more...
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 05, 2005 07:04 PM: Message edited by: fuseU1 ]</font>
It's like the Leif Garrets, Shaun Cassidys and Donny and Maries of the world won over real music. And it's all brought to you by the same generation that didn't want to die before they got old.
Isn't that priceless.
zappa was right about rock journalism, it's a profession for whores...they will help to sell anyhing. But don't question their integrity, no, don't do that.
I'd like to know just how gangsta rap helps people or what it's actual purpose is.
Screw that crap about "refelcting reality". That is so much bullshit. If it's true, would one say that something is seriously WRONG? Does anyone who wirtes about this crap care about that?
Ah fugeddaboutit. Let em kill themselves.
BTW, I don't own a TV.
Guess we "touched a nerve." [img]wink.gif[/img] A few good points, though.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It is to remind those who would be parents of how NOT to raise their children...& to be around for them if they can help it.Quote:
zappa was right about rock journalism, it's a profession for whores...they will help to sell anyhing. But don't question their integrity, no, don't do that.
I'd like to know just how gangsta rap helps people or what it's actual purpose is
"But don't question their integrity, no, don't do that." [This is a classic example of what is referred to as rampant "political correctness."]
What started with break dancing & mild rhymes, as a way to voice an opin & expression of discontent, oppression, & angst, eventually gave way to the base nature that overrides & often overcomes all boundaries & societies, similar to what punk & metal were originally, etc...that rebellious, fly in the face of convention, in your face, lowbrow, screw-you mentality that eventually pervades & goes overboard & awry. It also becomes about the perception of proving to others that one has worldly power & glory, & amassing much wealth $, no matter how it is appropriated [illegally or not]. It is the pervasive "shock-jock, trash-talk show" mentality that is so popular amongst the ignorant & misled. Whuich is why the youth buy this stuff up by the dumploads. Parents are ='ly as guilty. Wake up, peeps. Sign of the times.
The African-American culture has given us some of the greatest music on earth...& now, also the worst, IMHO. [I'm not talking about some of the hip-hop / funky groove elements themselves.] Much of BET has largely also now gone eMpTyV [& I'm also not talking about jazz, gospel, funk, soul, motown, blues, or RnB - which indeed contain some of the greatest art forms evar].
But many clear-thinking & successful black Americans & abroad are now also stepping up & speaking out about it's inherent evils.
But the same can be said about many other color & cultures as well. Caucasians included in a big way. Oh dear. I'm busting politically [in]correct, here. Sorry.
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 05, 2005 08:32 PM: Message edited by: fuseU1 ]</font>
Ashlee Simpson is a pathetic whore. She appeals to teeny bopper girls who have self confidance problems like appearance and talent. They can relate to her because she is semi-ugly and can't sing worth a shyte. Dumb bitch. [img]graemlins/devil.gif[/img]
Yeah, the glorifying of the stupid is something I just can't stand. I've got a cold too that isn't helping my disposition...
I was in the gym the other day and they had MTV2 on and they were playing rap videos and I was just watching it and wondering what in the hell was the POINT of it!
Ok, gold teeth, big cars, target practice, hot mute chicks with no personality, gold chains.
It's pathetic. But don't question it, nope, it's a valid art form according to smart people.
Larvae Lavine and the other pop tarts are just as vapid and useless.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Glorification of the inner a-h*** [or at least criminally insane!] is more like it.Quote:
Yeah, the glorifying of the stupid is something I just can't stand
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hey, that's not true at all!!Quote:
hot mute chicks with no personality
Some of them can cuss up a storm that'll put excessive hair on your great-Grandma's neck [or scorch it off!].
Dem's aint "hot mute chicks with no personality!"...dem's jes' "Ho's!"
Get it right!
It's NOT politically incorrect to glorify opportunistic, arrogant, gold-diggin' ho's [& pimps, FTM].
Just incorrect to be a humble, peace loving Christain, Muslim, Jew, Agnostic [or pick your credo here].
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<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 05, 2005 08:45 PM: Message edited by: fuseU1 ]</font>
Flam Triplet, that was awesome... Laughing out loud. I was thinking it but did not have the balls to say it!
...and it is Target & Walmart that carry only those CD's which will sell.
The whole industry has lost it's soul.
Bring back Captain and Tenille!
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 06, 2005 04:10 AM: Message edited by: PocketPlayer ]</font>
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hey FlamTriplet, tell us how you REALLY feel! [img]wink.gif[/img]Quote:
Ashlee Simpson is a pathetic whore. She appeals to teeny bopper girls who have self confidance problems like appearance and talent. They can relate to her because she is semi-ugly and can't sing worth a shyte. Dumb bitch.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks. Since I teach drums fulltime, I made a habit of taking up half a lesson with every student to talk about the bull of Ashlee Simpson. I may even go a step further and not accept kids who like her, or fire ones who do. I am serious. I had one student who said she liked her and the day after was SNL. The next week I asked her if she still liked her and she wasn't too impressed, but she still listens to the album-She's BRAINWASHED.Quote:
Originally posted by Lorenzini:
Flam Triplet, that was awesome... Laughing out loud. I was thinking it but did not have the balls to say it!
You know, when you are kidnapped by a serial killer and you are dehumanized. It's kinda like Ashlee Simpson's music.
I will never let this topic go until Ashlee is dropped from her label. I was thinking of going to her show in DC and standing outside with a big poster proclaiming the ultimate scam.
Something has to be done. We must all unite. I still ditch Ashlee Simpsons CDs behind other crap when I go to target.
I gotta say i laughed my ass off w/ flamtriplets comments. he's bustin his ass to make ends meat while ashlee, and let's not forget her plastic sister, are going through all of these gyrations that make them "singers"
GAWD DAMN FLAM!!! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Leave the poor brain (less) child alone. Otherwise next you'll be going after Madonna and Millie Vanille next!! [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
Hey!!??
Did anybody see the Bus Boys playing at one of those football game 1/2 times?? I heard my friend Dennis Jones was playing guitar with them.